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BTIG raised the firm’s price target on Darden (DRI) to $205 from $195 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares after its Q2 results. The company’s sales were better than expected, and its management has multiple levers to achieve full-year guidance, the analyst tells investors in a research note. BTIG adds that Q2 results were “encouraging” though noisy, with calendar shifts and weather disruption clouding some positive sales trends.

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